WithWednesdayhaving a presence at this year’sTudumevent held by Netflix, a new sneak peek video for theAddams Familyreboot series, featuringJenna Ortegaas the new Wednesday Addams, has just been revealed. In the clip, we can see Ortega’s Wednesday having taking control of a disobedient Thing, the disembodied hand that fans ofThe Addams Familywill instantly recognize. You can watch the clip below.
Wednesdayis developed for Netflix by Alfred Gough, Miles Millar, and Tim Burton. Gough and Millar also serve as showrunners while Burton shared directing duties with Gandja Monteiro and James Marshall. Along with Ortega in the lead role, the series stars Riki Lindhome, Jamie McShane, Hunter Doohan, Georgie Farmer, Gwendoline Christie, Luis Guzman, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Murray McArthur. Original Wednesday Addams actress Christina Ricci is also featured in a special role.
The official synopsis forWednesdayis as follows:
WEDNESDAY – starring Jenna Ortega in the title role, alongside Catherine Zeta-Jones, Luis Guzman, Gwendoline Christie, Christina Ricci and more – is a sleuthing, supernaturally infused mystery charting Wednesday Addams' years as a student at Nevermore Academy. Snap snap.
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Jenna Ortega Is the New Wednesday Addams
There must be a lot of pressure for Ortega taking on the role, especially when she’s literally working with Ricci, who portrayed such a popular incarnation of the same character. With that said, theWednesdayteam has been very supportive of the casting with great confidence in Ortega’s success. Burton is among those who’ve offered high praise to Ortega, making it clear that he sees her as the perfect Wednesday and wouldn’t want anyone else in the role.
“She’s like a silent movie actress in the sense where she’s able to convey things without words,” Burton said of Ortega in aWednesdayfeaturette. “To see the inner life and the subtleties was very exciting. And that’s why we’re very lucky to have Jenna because I can’t imagine any other Wednesday.”
“Wednesday is currently a teenager, and we’ve never seen her as a teenager before,” Ortega has also said of what’s unique about her version. “Her snarky, snide remarks might not necessarily sound as charming when they’re coming from somebody who should probably know better than a 10-year-old girl. That was a balancing act. We didn’t want to make her sound like every other teenage girl, but we also didn’t want to make her too ignorant.”
Ortega added, “We’ve never seen her on screen this much. Any other time you’ve seen Wednesday, she’s been the one-liner, the end of a joke, she always hits it, and I think that’s what people really love about her. But in this show, every scene is Wednesday. There’s an opportunity to give her a bit more dimension, and she becomes a bit more of a real person, which I don’t think we’ve ever seen before.”
Wednesdaywill start streaming on Netflix on Aug 17, 2025. Until then, you’re able to “apply” to the show’s fictional Nevermore Academy by visiting thetie-in website. You can also check out a previously-released teaser trailer below.
